Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer

Cookies on FT Sites

We use cookies and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to analyse how our Sites are used.

Accept cookies
Manage cookies
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign InmyFT
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Israeli intelligence ‘dismissed’ detailed warning of Hamas raid
    • Argentina’s Javier Milei backs away from dollarisation as central bank pick rejects role
    • Geert Wilders faces early setback in Dutch coalition talks
    • Hamas releases 24 hostages as Israel truce takes hold
    • Cathay Pacific offers cheap flights to help Hong Kong’s ‘patriots only’ vote
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    Most Read
    • Companies
      Sections
      • Companies Home
      • Energy
      • Financials
      • Health
      • Industrials
      • Media
      • Professional Services
      • Retail & Consumer
      • Tech Sector
      • Telecoms
      • Transport
      Most Read
      • KPMG extends pay freeze to 12,000 UK staff
      • Tesla strikes in Sweden are ‘insane’, says Elon Musk
      • How BP’s ‘Sun King’ court enabled the rise and fall of Bernard Looney
      • Jeff Zucker hits out at rival Telegraph bidders for ‘slinging mud’
      • Boots offloads £4.8bn pension scheme to Legal & General
    • Tech
    • Markets
      Sections
      • Markets Home
      • Alphaville
      • Markets Data
      • Cryptofinance
      • Capital Markets
      • Commodities
      • Currencies
      • Equities
      • Fund Management
      • Wealth Management
      • Trading
      • Moral Money
      • ETF Hub
      Most Read
      • Argentina’s Javier Milei backs away from dollarisation as central bank pick rejects role
      • News updates from November 24: Hamas releases hostages as Israel truce begins, Netherlands’ VVD party deals blow to Geert Wilders’ government hopes
      • How BP’s ‘Sun King’ court enabled the rise and fall of Bernard Looney
      • Investors dump dollar in bet that US rates have peaked
      • Montenegro court clears crypto chief Do Kwon for extradition
    • Climate
    • Opinion
      Sections
      • Opinion Home
      • Columnists
      • The FT View
      • Lex
      • Obituaries
      • Letters
      Most Read
      • OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’
      • Europe’s problem? It’s too attractive
      • Crypto power struggle enters new stage with Binance settlement
      • Slaying the worklessness monster is a thankless but crucial task
      • A much-needed truce between Israel and Hamas
    • Work & Careers
      Sections
      • Work & Careers Home
      • Business School Rankings
      • Business Education
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Recruitment
      • Business Books
      • Business Travel
      • Working It
      Most Read
      • Business Books: What to read this month
      • Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier: ‘The EU is not the same one the UK left’
      • In search of chief executives who never grow ‘old’
      • Start-ups challenge culture of the Japanese salaryman
      • The inescapable tyranny of the bad boss
    • Life & Arts
      Sections
      • Life & Arts Home
      • Arts
      • Books
      • Food & Drink
      • FT Magazine
      • House & Home
      • Style
      • Travel
      • FT Globetrotter
      Most Read
      • Tom Hanks: ‘I was a pretty lucky guy’
      • Why the breakdown of the 9-to-5 job is making us lonelier
      • Leon Black’s downfall confounds the legacy of #MeToo on Wall Street
      • The most decorated mountaineer ever (and why you’ve never heard of him)
      • Could younger homebuyers turn Belgravia from staid to ‘buzzy’?
    • HTSI
    MenuSearch
    • Home
    • World
    • US
    • Companies
    • Tech
    • Markets
    • Climate
    • Opinion
    • Work & Careers
    • Life & Arts
    • HTSI
    Financial Times
    SubscribeSign In

    Northvolt AB

    Add to myFT Digest

    Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      Peter Carlsson, Northvolt’s battery revolutionary

      Head of group seeking to be Europe’s first homegrown champion in the sector is not your average Swedish CEO

      Peter Carlsson
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Batteries
      Northvolt in new sodium-ion battery breakthrough

      Swedish start-up has developed an energy storage technology with no critical minerals including lithium which could minimise reliance on China

      People work on Northvolt sodium-ion cells
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Northvolt plans Stockholm listing for potential $20bn IPO

      Battery maker could go public as soon as next year in one of the largest IPOs for a European company in recent years

      Workers at the Northvolt gigafactory near Skellefteå, Sweden
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Northvolt to build battery gigafactory in Canada

      Swedish start-up to tap generous subsidies for its first such plant outside Europe

    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Batteries
      Northvolt secures investment from BlackRock

      Swedish battery start-up raises €1.2bn in convertible bonds as it prepares gigafactory expansion

      Employees work at a Northvolt facility in Sweden
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Northvolt receives $400mn funding from Canadian pension fund

      Investment Management Corporation of Ontario to boost Swedish battery start-up’s international expansion

      Two Northvolt staff in discussion in a room full of scientific equipment
    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Northvolt to build German battery factory after Berlin pledges state aid

      Government support for ‘flagship project’ unlocks big investment by Swedish start-up

      Northvolt’s research and development centre in Sweden
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Batteries
      Chinese group Putailai to build Europe’s largest anode factory in Sweden

      The $1.3bn plant is the latest Asian-owned facility that has set up shop in the Nordic country

      A Northvolt facility
    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Lex
      Northvolt: battery maker’s volting ambition needs heavy backing Premium content

      The Swedish business with plans to build four gigafactories is a young company in a hurry

      The Northvolt research and development centre in Vasteras, Sweden
    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      Batteries
      Northvolt in talks to secure $5bn to become Europe’s biggest battery maker

      Swedish start-up has become the main European challenger to the big Asian companies that dominate the industry

      The NorthVolt AB Labs research and development center in Vasteras, Sweden
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      Northvolt: the Swedish start-up charging Europe’s battery ambitions

      The company is helping the region compete with the US and Asia in a sector that is crucial to the green transition

      View through the forest of Northvolt’s Skellefteå factory
    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Inside BusinessRichard Milne
      Reasons for scepticism over Swedish rare earths find

      There are many questions over the project’s prospects and its potential to spur the green transition in Europe

      excavation works are pictured Kiruna, Sweden
    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Northvolt’s new chair urges Europe to follow US lead on battery subsidies

      Jim Hagemann Snabe to lead board at Swedish group with more than $55bn in orders

      An electric vehicle with Northvolt branding in snow
    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      Northvolt chief warns of turbulence in battery market

      Swedish group’s head Peter Carlsson says demand is proving resilient despite recession fears

      Employees at Northvolt’s facility in Västerås, Sweden,
    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      Batteries
      Northvolt and Norsk Hydro to expand battery recycling JV in Europe

      Scandinavian groups scouring locations in big vehicle markets such as Germany and France

      Northvolt’s laboratories in Vasteras, Sweden
    • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
      Northvolt becomes first in Europe to produce battery cell

      Swedish group is one of several start-ups on continent aiming to supply electric car market

      The Northvolt facility in Skelleftea, Sweden
    • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
      Batteries
      Galp and Northvolt to build Europe’s biggest lithium plant

      Portuguese project aims to process 35,000 tonnes a year of vital material for electric vehicle batteries

      A Galp petrol station in Spain
    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      Volvo Car AB
      Volvo Cars and Northvolt seek to take $3bn battery venture to US and Asia

      Swedish carmaker and start-up partner widen ambitions as they hope to gain head-start on rivals

      A Northvolt facility in Sweden
    • Monday, 21 June, 2021
      Batteries
      Volvo and Northvolt to team up on new battery gigafactory

      Partnership is part of Swedish automaker’s push to sell only fully electric cars by end of this decade

      An electric car
    • Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
      Sweden’s Northvolt raises $2.75bn to boost battery output

      Fundraising from investors including Goldman Sachs follows $14bn order from VW

      Northvolt facility in Sweden
    • Monday, 15 March, 2021
      Volkswagen AG
      VW plans six European battery factories by 2030 as it bets on electric future

      Europe’s largest carmaker orders $14bn of batteries from Northvolt over next decade

      VW e-Golf cars being checked at a factory in Dresden, Germany, in May 2020
    • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
      Northvolt agrees to buy US battery start-up Cuberg

      Swedish group says acquisition will give it technology that can boost range of electric vehicles

      Peter Carlsson, who founded Northvolt in 2016, said Cuberg’s technology would allow the company to ‘make significant improvements in both performance and safety’
    • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
      Electric vehicles
      BMW agrees €2bn battery cell contract with Northvolt

      Order with Swedish manufacturer comes amid race to secure electric vehicle parts

    • Monday, 1 June, 2020
      Electric vehicles
      Northvolt and Norsk Hydro to build car battery recycling plant

      Nordic groups to split materials harvested from Norway’s large fleet of electric vehicles

    • Monday, 2 December, 2019
      FT SeriesEurope First: the race to compete
      Europe First: how Brussels is retooling industrial policy

      FT series: the push to develop a batteries industry for electric vehicles reflects a big change in EU thinking

    Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

    Useful links

    Support

    View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

    Legal & Privacy

    Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

    Services

    Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

    Tools

    PortfolioToday’s Newspaper (FT Digital Edition)Alerts HubBusiness School RankingsEnterprise ToolsNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

    Community & Events

    FT CommunityFT Live EventsFT ForumsFT Board DirectorBoard Director Programme

    More from the FT Group

    Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2023. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
    The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
    Financial Times

    International Edition

    Subscribe for full access
    • Switch to UK Edition

    Top sections

    • Home
    • World
      • Israel-Hamas war
      • Global Economy
      • UK
      • US
      • China
      • Africa
      • Asia Pacific
      • Emerging Markets
      • Europe
      • War in Ukraine
      • Americas
      • Middle East & North Africa
    • US
      • US Economy
      • US Companies
      • US Politics & Policy
    • Companies
      • Energy
      • Financials
      • Health
      • Industrials
      • Media
      • Professional Services
      • Retail & Consumer
      • Tech Sector
      • Telecoms
      • Transport
    • Tech
      • Artificial intelligence
      • Semiconductors
      • Cyber Security
      • Social Media
    • Markets
      • Alphaville
      • Markets Data
      • Cryptofinance
      • Capital Markets
      • Commodities
      • Currencies
      • Equities
      • Fund Management
      • Wealth Management
      • Trading
      • Moral Money
      • ETF Hub
    • Climate
    • Opinion
      • Columnists
      • The FT View
      • Lex
      • Obituaries
      • Letters
    • Work & Careers
      • Business School Rankings
      • Business Education
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Recruitment
      • Business Books
      • Business Travel
      • Working It
    • Life & Arts
      • Arts
      • Books
      • Food & Drink
      • FT Magazine
      • House & Home
      • Style
      • Travel
      • FT Globetrotter
    • Personal Finance
      • Property & Mortgages
      • Investments
      • Pensions
      • Tax
      • Banking & Savings
      • Advice & Comment
      • Next Act
    • HTSI
    • Special Reports

    FT recommends

    • Lex
    • Alphaville
    • Lunch with the FT
    • FT Globetrotter
    • #techAsia
    • Moral Money
    • Visual and data journalism
    • Newsletters
    • Video
    • Podcasts
    • News feed
    • FT Live Events
    • FT Forums
    • Board Director Programme
    • myFT
    • Portfolio
    • Today’s Newspaper (FT Digital Edition)
    • Crossword
    • Our Apps
    • Help Centre
    • Subscribe
    • Sign In